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Re: 2.6.22-git* regression: Kconfig prompts without help text

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2007-07-19 20:26:45
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
quoted hunk
Add some help texts to recently-introduced kconfig items

Index: linux-2.6.23/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23.orig/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6.23/drivers/macintosh/Kconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ menuconfig MACINTOSH_DRIVERS
 	bool "Macintosh device drivers"
 	depends on PPC || MAC || X86
 	default y if (PPC_PMAC || MAC)
+	---help---
+	  Say Y here to get to see options for devices used with Macintosh
+	  computers, both PPC and Intel based. This option alone does not add
                                  ^^^^^
+	  any kernel code.
+
+	  If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
`MAC' is the symbol for m68k Macs.
From a quick look at drivers/macintosh/Kconfig, all of the entries are for m68k
and PPC Macs only.  The only thing that depends on X86 is the main menu...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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